To Loot My Life Clean : The Thomas Wolfe-Maxwell Perkins Correspondence
Bruccoli, Matthew J., Bucker, Park
ISBN 10: 1570033552 ISBN 13: 9781570033551
Published by University of South Carolina Press, 2000
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The relationship between Thomas Wolfe and his editor, Maxwell Perkins has been the subject of guesswork and anecdote for 70 years. Scholars have debated Wolfe's dependence on his editor. This volume of 251 letters should clarify the relationship and set the record straight.
About the Author: <p><b>Matthew J. Bruccoli </b>(1931–2008) was the Emily Brown Jefferies Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at the University of South Carolina and the leading authority on the House of Scribner and its authors. He was the editorial director of the <i>Dictionary of Literary Biography</i> and the author or editor of some one hundred books.</p> <p><b>Park Bucker </b>earned his Ph.D. in American literature from the University of South Carolina in Columbia. He is the editor of <i>The Catalogue of the Matthew J. and Arlyn Bruccoli Collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald.</i> Bucker's volume on social fiction is forthcoming.</p>
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Title: To Loot My Life Clean : The Thomas ...
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good